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Let’s Talk about SexWhen someone says the word “sex”, most people automatically jump to senses that person is talking about “sexual intercourse” don’t worry, everyone does it. In reality though sex is way more than just a three later word or the proper word for “getting it on”, more or less sex is defined by a noun, a verb and a thought. What other words pop into head when thinking about the word sex, a synonym for sex is gender. The definition of gender is the state of being male or female, so of course in our world today people link sex and gender together automatically. These are two powerful words and topics, which bring me to my articles, my linking throughout all of the articles was the concept of sex and gender roles in each articles. My finding was that even though each article spoke on a difference topic or theme, they each had to me the same underline thoughts throughout the articles which are, what are you? Who are you? And what are supposed to do?.

In “The Five Sexes, Revisited” by Anne Fausto Sterling, the main topic was about there being more than just two categories of sex. Sterling focuses on speaking on the how society needs to be able to recognize more than just two sexes, and make a more complex system of gender roles and identities. She gives examples of the gender role theories going wrong, the surgically boy turned into a girl named “Joan” is good example, Joan played the role of a female in his childhood even though he was born as a male, later in life Joan now known as David rejected the girl he knew as himself has, an resulted back to his nature sex as an male, “John/Joan sought masculinizing medication and married a woman with children” (Sterling p153). In this example sex and gender roles didn’t match, David rejected his “female assignment” or gender given to live a life as his born sex .

In “No Degree and No Way Back to the Middle” by Timothy Egan, the article focuses on middle class and a man role to keep the family...

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...Let’s TalkAboutSexSex is considered as the feelings or behaviors between a man and a woman resulting in sexual intercourse. The sexual attitudes towards certain topics of sex consist of the opinions of sex being always wrong, almost always wrong, sometimes wrong, or not wrong at all. Americans range from a variety of opinions on this particular topic because some citizens are either religious and follow religious values, are not religious, but still care, or those who do not care at all. Through a four question survey, a little over seven candidates were offered to take the survey and express their opinions on the different topics of sex.
Premarital sex is known as an individual having sexual intercourse with another before marriage or engagement. In America, 52 percent of the population considers premarital sex to be not wrong at all. Among those who answered the survey, the option of premarital sex to be not wrong at all was the highest opinion. The reason for this is because one stated, “Because sex whether people want to believe it or not is very important.” Another proclaimed that it is wrong only sometimes based upon beliefs and depends upon the age. Looking into the readings over the chapter, only 21 percent of Americans consider premarital sex to be always wrong mainly because of the...

...The film “Let’s TalkAboutSex” was about the views on teens having sex in The United States, the results of those views, and how they compare to the views in the Netherlands. In the United States there is sex everywhere in the media, and seems like it would be part of our everyday culture. In reality though, sex is not a natural thing to talkabout in the United States; in fact it is very frowned upon. When you are growing up and learning aboutsex in the United States, you are taught by abstinence only programs. These programs teach you that the only true way to participate in safe premarital sex is to abstain from it. Since teens have grown up hearing this throughout their whole lives, they sneak around to have sex and do not use the protection they should because they are too scared to ask parents or authority figures and cannot get a hold of it. Because of this, the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world. In comparison to the Netherlands, where there birth rate is about 60% less than that of the US. In the Netherlands, they encourage using condoms and other forms of birth control when participating in teen premarital sex. Unlike the United States, they have natural, open conversations about...

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On the two videos I watched, I learned that gender isn't just about what you are as a man or woman. It tells us that it refers to the socially constructed roles and relationships and personality traits of a person. It is an acquired identity. It explains to us what gender really all about is.
In other parts of the video “Challenging Gender Roles and Categories-Is Male Dominance Universal (2007)”, it was shown there that because of some assumptions about gender and behavior it had led to specific gender roles that nowadays are common from the western culture but these western gender roles are not universal because many others exist the world over. There are things that women do the same as what men do. And in some cultures there are more than 2 genders; it isn’t always man or woman.
In “The Impossible Dream?” (UN 1983) video, it shows us story about the roles of a man or woman. And there is a very huge bias for the wife because she’s the one who makes all the works at home and the daughter is expected to do so. But it doesn’t mean that if you’re the wife you should to the household task and what your husband doing is just lay on bed, watch tv, wait for the food and goes to his...

...Mitigating the Discomforts of Sexuality
How do women talkaboutsex? This is the question that drives the heart of this research. In the proposed ethnographic research, I will investigate the linguistic tools that women use to mitigate the discomfort in talking aboutsex. The selected field of study is a passion party, in which a group of friends and family members gather at a private residence with the explicit purpose to learn and talkaboutsex. A passion party consultant is invited to demonstrate sexual products, sell the products to the guests, and stimulate talk. Nevertheless, with the foremost purpose to educate women aboutsex. Passion parties are often part of a bacholorette party. Therefore, the data that I will later analyzed is derived from a friend’s bacholorette passion party and video recordings posted online. Subsequently, the data will be analyzed with a focus on the linguistic semiotic process that index sexuality and the linguistic construction of humor that serve to alleviate embarrassment of talking aboutsex among women and overcome linguistic ideologies of female sexuality.
First, lets explore the linguistic inequalities that exist in gender which provide the building blocks of the construction of the linguistic ideology that places female...

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Let’s TalkAboutSex
James Houston put together the documentary “Let’s TalkAboutSex” that highlights the differences between American’s approach to sex education and that of other countries like the Netherlands. The stereotypes, controversy, and irony all related to sex is put out in the open and discussed. Throughout the film, it is obvious that America’s ways of sex education and attitude towards sex has created a negative connotation. The Europeans have a much more open approach when it comes to the discussion of sex and started sex education at an early age. American’s, on the other hand, have a very closed approach to sex discussion and save sex education for later ages. This negative connotation and approach to education has resulted in the States having much higher rates of teen pregnancy, teen birth, and sexually transmitted infections when compared to European countries. One could say that it’s time the United States changes its approach and opinions regarding sex, sexuality, and the education behind it.
Throughout the movie, there was a commonality between those who held a biased opinion on the topic of sex. Those who believed abstinence should be enforced and were against an open discussion of sexual relations were often times from...

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Greg Konen
In Peter Saul’s (2011) “Let’s Talking about Dying” talk, he opened up with a very poignant statement that when 2000 brain cells die daily he argues that our dying process really truly has started. As a physician, he reports that he has seen many changes in the last thirty years.
One significant change is the role of technology in healthcare. Technology, he argues, is credited with life prolonging, rather than life saving. He also states that chronic diseases are now taking control in the dying process.
He postulated that the four ways to die are: (a) sudden death, (b) terminal illness, (c) organ failure, and (d) frailty (Saul, 2011). Sudden death is declining due to technology and increased education. Terminal illness is usually reserved for the younger person. Organ failure will lead people into the Intensive Care Unit of the local hospital. He reports that there is seven times more stress associated with this type of death (Saul, 2011). He also states that one in five United States citizens will experience this type of death (Saul, 2011).
The final way to die, frailty, is what most people will experiences. Life longevity breeds frailty. This dwindling capacity is an inevitable part of aging (Saul, 2011). This increased longevity leads to longer life; not necessarily better life (Saul, 2011).
The key for healthcare professionals is respecting patient choices (Saul, 2011). To explore this concept,...

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Pollution . . .
Water
Landfills and Dumps
and more
Water Pollution
(all these facts come from the website
Grinning Planet at
http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/07-26/water-pollution-factsarticle.htm)
What are the water sources that we
are concerned about in Gary?
We get our drinking water from
Lake Michigan
Well water comes from
groundwater
All Gary residents drink city water
which comes from Lake Michigan.
Our health is affected by water quality
in many ways besides drinking
water:
Swimming
Bathing
Fishing
Water sports and recreation
What is Water Pollution?
Water pollution is the contamination of any body of
water by any toxic substance in a toxic amount that
affects the biological or chemical integrity of the
water, or causes harm to plants, animals, or
humans who come in contact with it.
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Chemical and industrial processes
Pesticides, fertilizers, fungicides
Sewage – e.coli, and other organisms
Oil, gasoline and additives
Personal Care Products, Household Cleaning Products,
and Pharmaceuticals
Carbon dioxide
Plastic
Medical waste
Sediment
Air pollution
Noise
Heat
The EPA divides water pollution into two
categories depending on its origin:
– POINT source pollution comes from harmful
substances being discharged directly into the
water from a stationary source such...